tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post6113643934951455628..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Frauds!Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-70666191087837350912009-01-26T04:43:00.000-05:002009-01-26T04:43:00.000-05:00Steve,If I knew nothing about you, I would wager t...Steve,<BR/><BR/>If I knew nothing about you, I would wager that you were in the teaching profession from reading your responses; how else to explain how patiently you respond to some pretty simplistic and silly questions? I understand that at the heart of some of these inane questions is something worthwhile. <BR/><BR/>But let's not mince words. The guy is an idiot. Which is not so bad Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-84410988082008475102009-01-18T16:17:00.000-05:002009-01-18T16:17:00.000-05:00reply to 4:12 PM (a different Anonymous)It's very ...reply to 4:12 PM (a different Anonymous)<BR/><BR/>It's very common to see "Gotcha" type games being played against individuals who have a high estimate of their own brainpower.<BR/><BR/>For example, many news stories and documentaries about Mensa will frequently have reporters asking "Gotcha" type questions to Mensa members, largely as a way of making Mensa members look stupid and/or clueless. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-80881327377167854832009-01-16T18:18:00.000-05:002009-01-16T18:18:00.000-05:00Why all the venom against Goldman Sachs in particu...<I>Why all the venom against Goldman Sachs in particular?<BR/><BR/>Why aren't you directing your venom against other "traitorous" enterprises or individuals, such as:...</I><BR/><BR/>For some on your list, because our host didn't mention these.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-15114464768124859492009-01-16T16:40:00.000-05:002009-01-16T16:40:00.000-05:00So is Gene Simmons. (He was born Chaim Witz in Ha...So is Gene Simmons. (He was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-65146459430697641572009-01-16T16:31:00.000-05:002009-01-16T16:31:00.000-05:00Only Dell and Sharon are Jewish.Only Dell and Sharon are Jewish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-34304630597352741002009-01-16T15:51:00.000-05:002009-01-16T15:51:00.000-05:00^^Why all the venom against Goldman Sachs in parti...^^<BR/><BR/>Why all the venom against Goldman Sachs in particular?<BR/><BR/>Why aren't you directing your venom against other "traitorous" enterprises or individuals, such as:<BR/><BR/>Circuit City?<BR/>Dell?<BR/>Microsoft?<BR/>Enron?<BR/>General Motors?<BR/>Daimler Benz?<BR/>Ozzy Osbourne?<BR/>American Idol?<BR/>Ariel Sharon?<BR/>Gene Simmons?<BR/>Osama Bin Laden?<BR/>IBM?<BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-73670039390878539172009-01-16T07:51:00.000-05:002009-01-16T07:51:00.000-05:00How exactly are these physics PhDs "sociopathic"?B...<I>How exactly are these physics PhDs "sociopathic"?</I><BR/><BR/>By their willingness to work for swindlers like Goldman Sachs. If they are Americans, then you can add the description <I>traitors</I> to their resume since they willingly work for banksters like Goldman Sachs who help destroy the economic foundations of the good old U.S. of A. <BR/><BR/>However, all this is moot now. The reign of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89499509225347092602009-01-16T01:06:00.000-05:002009-01-16T01:06:00.000-05:00^^How exactly are these physics PhDs "sociopathic"...^^<BR/><BR/>How exactly are these physics PhDs "sociopathic"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-6164115101441626462009-01-15T22:17:00.000-05:002009-01-15T22:17:00.000-05:00Employers love to hire PhDs in physics. Have a loo...<I>Employers love to hire PhDs in physics. Have a look at where McKinsey, Goldman... ... recruit</I><BR/><BR/>This says more about the sociopathic behavior and low amount of morals possessed by PhDs in physics than their intelligence :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69463502259884911122009-01-15T21:50:00.000-05:002009-01-15T21:50:00.000-05:00And cludge together evrything else.engineer: physi...And cludge together evrything else.<BR/><BR/>engineer: physicist:: <BR/>athlete: sports writerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-45523828036418824132009-01-15T20:51:00.000-05:002009-01-15T20:51:00.000-05:00A minor nit: the importance of GR to the GPS syste...A minor nit: the importance of GR to the GPS system is often overstated by physicists who lack a detailed understanding of how the system uses Kalman filtering to correct for clock drift, of which GR corrections are one source. See for example http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1996/Vol%2028_16.pdf. My guess is that, in a world where GR was not understood, engineers would still have been able to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-29936719580808138372009-01-15T19:12:00.000-05:002009-01-15T19:12:00.000-05:00(a different Anonymous)Yawn. Steve, I'm surprised...(a different Anonymous)<BR/>Yawn. Steve, I'm surprised that someone with such a high estimation of his own brainpower would waste so much time on an obvious troll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-73304567574315979722009-01-15T12:19:00.000-05:002009-01-15T12:19:00.000-05:00One final point, which you might find interesting:...One final point, which you might find interesting: the theory of fluid shockwaves had to be advanced considerably for design of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, and even for advanced ordinary munitions. People like von Neumann and Ulam (big, big brains, and definitely theoreticians) played a central role in this. <BR/><BR/>No brute force method was likely to stumble on an efficient design for Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-6358815715928618592009-01-15T12:04:00.000-05:002009-01-15T12:04:00.000-05:00"and think about how hard it would have been witho..."and think about how hard it would have been without a good understanding of the theory."<BR/><BR/>Thought about it. It would have been MUCH easier without having to waste time on puting experimental results into a theoretical context.<BR/><BR/>You're right, spin is post 1900. So by modern physics what I mean is any physics which doesn't disprove my theory that modern physics is a fraud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-58479567518632770572009-01-15T11:55:00.000-05:002009-01-15T11:55:00.000-05:00The most hardcore "anti-theory" people I've met, w...The most hardcore "anti-theory" people I've met, were the types who had an intense hatred of intellectuals and other "eggheads". If these "anti-theory" types ran the government and/or the government secret police, they would relish with glee and excitement at ordering the execution of all intellectuals without trial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-26464581016026688462009-01-15T11:24:00.000-05:002009-01-15T11:24:00.000-05:00Those companies don't use physics directly. They d...Those companies don't use physics directly. They do use the skills developed in physics training. (Logic, mathematics, model building, data analysis...)<BR/><BR/>I don't feel that this discussion is going anywhere, but as a final point you should look more carefully at the invention process for lasers, NMR, A-bomb and think about how hard it would have been without a good understanding of the Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-51811677323868053742009-01-15T11:20:00.000-05:002009-01-15T11:20:00.000-05:00"McKinsey, Goldman, Intel, Google, venture funds, ..."McKinsey, Goldman, Intel, Google, venture funds, ... recruit"<BR/><BR/>None of these companies use physics.<BR/><BR/>"Theorists played a decisive role in the Manhattan project."<BR/><BR/>There were a lot of them, but the whole thing could have been done without them.<BR/><BR/>I know what NMR is. I use it all the time. And I know that it's development and its use can do without theory. <BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89232754995913487682009-01-15T11:10:00.000-05:002009-01-15T11:10:00.000-05:00You are completely wrong in your assertions. Theor...You are completely wrong in your assertions. Theorists played a decisive role in the Manhattan project. The examples I gave are not things that could have been done without a good understanding of the "theory" involved. (Now that you know a bit about GPS, go look up NMR or spintronics.)<BR/><BR/>QM *is* on the curriculum (albeit in watered down form) in top PhD engineering programs (like EE, Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-85923196343491976962009-01-15T10:59:00.000-05:002009-01-15T10:59:00.000-05:00The small effect of relativity on GPS is big enoug...The small effect of relativity on GPS is big enough for its correction to be useful. I am surprised. <BR/><BR/>I wish I could be surprised more often about such things.<BR/><BR/>Another example about which I am uninformed but on which I can still speak dogmatically: <BR/><BR/>All the theorists of the Manhattan project were useless. <BR/><BR/>What do I need to make the bomb?<BR/><BR/>I need to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69306668128873024302009-01-15T10:38:00.000-05:002009-01-15T10:38:00.000-05:00"A first rate brain trained in an esoteric area of..."A first rate brain trained in an esoteric area of physics (like particle theory) can get up to speed on applied stuff very, very fast, and solve problems that very few engineers could."<BR/><BR/>Apparently employers don't know this.<BR/><BR/>But of course Steve can be relied on to claim physicists are the smartest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-73824568499187249502009-01-15T10:32:00.000-05:002009-01-15T10:32:00.000-05:00"You didn't respond to GPS. Relativity is post 190..."You didn't respond to GPS. Relativity is post 1900."<BR/><BR/>How does GPS makes use of relativity? I know the moon missions made no use of it.<BR/><BR/>All of "did you knows" etc. do not require any theory. If they did QM would be part of engineering curricula. It isn't.<BR/><BR/>There is sometimes a confusion with an explanation and an "understanding" of technology and what it actually takes Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-9011959779669724482009-01-15T09:46:00.000-05:002009-01-15T09:46:00.000-05:00"The usefulnesss of "modern physics" is measured b..."The usefulnesss of "modern physics" is measured by the employment prospects of its graduates. Particle/high-energy physics, astrophysics are useless."<BR/><BR/>This is not a good measure. There is a time lag. Something may turn out to be very useful decades or centuries after its discovery, even if the discovery is only of conceptual interest at the time (e.g., DNA, double helix; linear algebra;Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59825915174219919782009-01-15T01:31:00.000-05:002009-01-15T01:31:00.000-05:00The usefulnesss of "modern physics" is measured by...The usefulnesss of "modern physics" is measured by the employment prospects of its graduates. Particle/high-energy physics, astrophysics are useless. <BR/><BR/>Solid-state physics may be useful, but I doubt it. That is, as much would be accomplished without any theory. If a room-temperature superconductor is ever synthesized I can almost guarantee it will by accident.<BR/><BR/>You yourself have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-30320625567818416422009-01-14T22:34:00.000-05:002009-01-14T22:34:00.000-05:00>Modern physics in large part is a fraud. >V...>Modern physics in large part is a fraud. <BR/>>Very few understand it, but it is completely useless.<BR/><BR/>What exactly do you mean by "modern physics"? We couldn't have GPS systems without a proper understanding of both special and general relativity. Quantum mechanics is central to our understanding of chemistry, nanotechnology, lasers, etc. <BR/><BR/>Frontier physics ofSteve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-35170660074327390112009-01-14T19:43:00.000-05:002009-01-14T19:43:00.000-05:00It can also happen that a person is accused of bei...It can also happen that a person is accused of being a fraud, because his accusers cannot understand him.<BR/><BR/>Heidegger, Hegel, and other thinkers have been wrongly so accused.<BR/><BR/>In general, though, a fraud is protected by the unwillingness of people to admit they don't understand.<BR/><BR/>Modern physics in large part is a fraud. Very few understand it, but it is completely useless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com